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Everyone in The Grove thought Tanya Jennings and I were inevitable. We grew up next door, our mothers called us future in-laws for fifteen years, and I spent half my life making room for her temper. Then at our engagement party, she smashed the ring I chose for her in front of hundreds of guests, all because Simon Stone, her "best guy friend," needed her. This time, I didn't beg her to stay. I called off the engagement, walked away, and sent a multibillion-dollar Smart City deal meant for her family's company to ReedTech, her biggest rival. What Tanya never knew was that the quiet boy from The Grove had become Lucas Grant, the owner of Grandwell. By the time she realizes Simon's smile hid a trap and my silence was not weakness, the man who once always looked back may have finally learned not to.